Get Rid of Brown Stains in Toilet Bowl
I was shocked when I recently opened the lid of my 'spare' toilet in the laundry.
The bottom of the pan had turned a murky, mucky brown, the colour of, well, you know... At first I thought it was THAT, but then I realised it couldn't possibly be as nobody ever uses this loo.
You see, the brown film on the bottom of your toilet bowl is actually a build up from hard water.
So, how can you clean such brown stains from the bottom of the toilet?
Google had a lot of answers. So I headed to the shops to get everything mentioned on my searches for 'how to clean calcium build up on toilet bowl' and 'how to clean toilet bowl stains'.
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I like to cover all the bases, so I picked up everything my search had suggested.
That included: vinegar, bicarbonate of soda, citric acid, borax, and a scrubbing brush with a long handle. All up I spent about $13.
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One of the tips I read involved pouring citric acid into the toilet bowl and leaving it to do the work.
I dunked the whole tub — which you can find in the spice aisle — and left it to work overnight.
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The next morning I was hopeful when I opened the lid. But it looked just the same.
Seems it was going to be harder work than I had thought.
I've had some luck before with cleaning grout with a paste of bicarb of sofa and vinegar, so that was my next option.
Note: I avoided adding bleach, too as I did once in my bathroom, which saw me nearly gas myself and is very dangerous.
The vinegar was $1.50 and the bicarb was $2.40 (the budget version, which they didn't have was only $1.80), bringing the total to just $3.30.
I poured some vinegar into an old bowl and sprinkled in some bicarb. It fizzed and looked like it was working.
Personally, I like to make things up as I go along but the internet told me it's best to do one-part baking soda to two parts vinegar.
I mixed it into a paste, dunked in my long brush, and started scrubbing the brown bits.
The brown sludge started to shift immediately. It was pretty satisfying and clearly worked from the moment I started.
I kept dipping my brush in the mix and scrubbing, which delivered some seriously impressive results. When the now beige stain was nearly gone, I dunked the rest of the mix into the pan.
It didn't even take much elbow grease before all of the hard water marks had disappeared.
I didn't even need to use the Borax, which is also supposed to work well, and was a more pricey $4.10.
If you have a neglected loo too, pick up your vinegar and bicarb and get to work.
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